Russia's "Pearl Harbor"

Multiple news outlets have picked-up the story of Ukraine’s brilliant strategic drone attack crippling Russia’s strategic aviation and the air component of Russia’s nuclear triad. This was a extremely innovative, well-planned, and executed asymmetric response to Russia’s overwhelming advantage in strategic aviation. The attack has major implications for Ukraine’s security as well as for NATO and the United States.

Here’s some data on the attack, collected from reporting on social media. Great job from the OSINTers pulling this stuff together.

Belaya (Irkutsk region) (31.05):

🟢7 Tu-160 bombers;

🟢6 Tu-95MS bombers;

🟢2 Il-78M;

🟢6 An-26;

🟢2 An-12;

🟢39 Tu-22M3 bombers;

🟢30 MiG-31.

Olenya (Murmansk region) (26.05):

🟢11 Tu-95MS bombers;

🟢5 An-12;

🟢40 Tu-22M3 bombers.

At least 2 more airbases were also attacked: Ivanovo and Dyagilevo.